Confidence, Comparison & Body Image

Hot Mess with Alix Earle

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Relationships, Fashion & Beauty, Arts, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Links to donate to Los Angeles Wildfire Relief: Zeffy: https://www.zeffy.com/fundraising/california-wildfire-relief Amazon List: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/1HSJQCD7YIQM6?ref_=wl_share This week, Alix and Ashtin open up about self-confidence and the insecurities that shape us all. They share stories of their first experiences with insecurity as kids, dive into how being compared to each other has affected them, and unpack the plastic surgery rabbit holes sparked by social media’s influence. Wrapping up with a heartfelt reminder to themselves and the Earle Girls, they emphasize that someone else’s beauty doesn’t diminish our own — because beauty comes in so many unique forms. Follow and connect with all things @HotMess across Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube.

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0:00.0	Hey guys, welcome back to another episode of Hot Mess with Alex Earle. I am back in L.A. right now. We had just been gone for about a week. I know I told you guys I was coming here, moving here for the month. And then obviously the fires had broke out here. So we decided to leave and we left with a few of my friends who were in like a mandatory evacuation
0:21.2	zone and it's been really, really devastating what's been happening here. So I've been trying to do my
0:26.3	best to like give back, help with any resources I can. And it's been really nice just seeing
0:32.1	the LA community come together. And I know I don't really live here and I've never lived here,
0:37.3	but I just feel like
0:39.0	there's so many people I know here and so many people I work with so closely like my whole entire
0:43.3	team is in L.A. So I've been really trying to like take some time off this week and really
0:48.9	brainstorm on ways I can give back. I don't know if you guys remember but when there was the
0:53.1	hurricanes I had just posted these
0:56.4	Amazon lists that this girl Kelsey Revel, and she has Revel with the cause as her organization.
1:01.5	So she put together Amazon lists, and she had a bunch of volunteers go and give them out to
1:05.6	a lot of the families that lost their homes.
1:07.4	So she decided to start this up again with the fires.
1:10.8	So I have been talking to
1:12.8	her a lot and she has the Amazon list going. We have volunteer forms. We have ways you can just
1:18.5	donate. And all of those links are going to be in the description of this episode. I know a lot of
1:24.9	you guys also live in L.A. So I just wanted to say I love you. And I'm really excited for you guys to listen to this episode. I know a lot of you guys also live in L.A., so I just wanted to say, I love you.
1:29.2	And I'm really excited for you guys to listen to this episode. I think there's a really
1:32.8	fun, strong message in this. Ashton and I are kind of talking about comparison, and we go over
1:40.4	a little bit of like just body image and confidence in general and you know maybe wanting
1:45.6	to get work done and maybe wanting to work on yourself and just be the best version of yourself
1:51.2	and what does that look like while still loving yourself and I know that can be a lot especially
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